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Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce

Chris — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:18:13 +0000

In many Mexican and Latin America recipes, you will see a call for Chipotle peppers. This is not a pepper that you are going to find in the vegetable aisle. A Chipotle pepper is a smoked Jalapeno and normally it is preserved in a Adobo Sauce.

When in the grocery store it is called Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce. This product is usually purchased in a can or jar and you will find it available under numerous brand names. Basically it is smoked Jalapeno chili peppers that are canned in a red sauce and this sauce typically is made of a tomato puree, salt, ground black pepper, and ground paprika, chopped onions, oil, vinegar, minced garlic, oregano and bay leaves. The product is considered to have “moderate” spicy heat.

How can you use it? This product is used for making sauces, Chipotle mayonnaise, and dry rubs and can be used in a variety of Latin and/or Mexican recipes. The product is ready to use straight from the can.

Storage: This type of product (once opened) can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks or freeze left-over product for up to 3 months. You should refrigerate or freeze this product in glass containers or plastic storage bags as the tomato sauce can stain plastic containers.

The Chipotle Peppers in Adobe Sauce is readily available in grocery stores that stock a lot of Hispanic foods or it can be purchased online from several retailers. Keep a few cans on hand for great flavor additions to stews and soups.

Homemade Garden Pest Control ~ Garlic Pepper Spray Recipe

Chris — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:14:17 +0000

If you are into home gardening you are going to want to keep your backyard garden clean and clear from all harmful pests that can destroy your home garden in just a matter of days. Here is a homemade recipe for Garlic Pepper Pest Control Spray. This is great way to protect your garden and plants and not have to use harmful chemicals either.

Garlic Pepper Pest Control Spray Recipe

2 garlic bulbs, chopped
6 large red chili peppers, finely chopped
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (not olive oil)
2 tablespoons liquid dishwashing soap
7 cups of tap water

Place the chopped garlic bulbs, chopped chili peppers and 7 cups of water into a large blending container and process until smooth. Pour mixture through a strainer and place into a large glass container. Pour in the vegetable oil and liquid dishwashing soap. Stir until everything is combined. Use an old funnel and pour mixture into a large spray bottle. Make sure you clearly mark your spray bottle as containing your Garlic Pepper Pest Control Spray so that others in your household know what it is.

Lightly spray the mixture on and around your garden plants. It is good for repelling potato bugs, ants, grubs and other harmful small critters and pests. You will also want to spray this mixture around your garden perimeter to keep groundhogs, rabbits, deer and other animals out of your garden.

This is a recipe for a natural bug and pest spray that is not harmful to your plants, animals or people. Just make sure you wash your produce well before eating!

Hot Sauce Dangers

Chris — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:49:15 +0000

Some people have questioned whether hot sauce or the hot peppers can be a danger to you. Peppers as a whole are not dangerous to you. They have plenty of vitamins and health benefits. What can get to you is the Capsaicin. Capsaicin is potent oil, but there is no medical evidence that it is unhealthy for your body by consuming it in a sauce or in your food.

The effect you can get from this oil that is harmful to you is the burning from the oil found in very hot peppers like Habaneros, Ghost Peppers and similar very hot fruits. For someone that is not used to eating very hot foods, you can get extreme burning on your tongue and in your mouth. The oil can also give someone digestive effects in your intestines and stomach and cause severe upset.

Capsaicin can aggravate preexisting ulcers and digestive disorders, so those suffering from any kind of digestive difficulty need to proceed with caution. There have been many concerns that hot peppers cause ulcers. This has been shown to be not true as the capsaicin actually helps prevent ulcers as it helps the stomach build up bile and kills unwanted bacteria.

One other side effect can come after cleaning the hot peppers. The oil can remain on your hands and should you touch your eyes or face, you can feel a high level of pain, including blistering of the skin in more severe cases. Make sure to wear gloves and wash your hands with soap and water after use.

In the old days you used to hear of parents giving their children hot sauce to ingest for cursing or doing something bad (like washing their mouths out with soap type of deal) and it is highly advised that parents do not use hot sauce as a punishment tool in regards to children. The pepper oils and juice can cause severe stomach issues and burning on their delicate tongue and mouth for quite a while after eating it.

Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce

Chris — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:58:24 +0000

Sweet Rays BBQ Sauce has been a staple for many families for years. It is a very popular BBQ sauce brand here in America that has won numerous awards over the years. The company got its start back in 1985 and their products are readily available out in the marketplace.

Sweet Baby Ray’s sauce has a taste that is described as sweet, thick and with a nice kick but not too much heat to it. It is a great sauce for dipping, marinating, cooking with or just swabbing it on while Barbequing. It tastes fabulous with Beef, Chicken and Pork alike.

The Sauce is available in 6 delicious flavors:

* Sweet Baby Ray’s Original
* Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey
* Sweet Baby Ray’s Hickory & Brown Sugar
* Sweet Baby Ray’s Sweet & Spicy
* Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey Chipotle
* Sweet Baby Ray’s Sweet Vidalia Onion

Sweet Rays is also a great base for your own BBQ sauce too. You can add more peppers for additional heat, chipotle for more smoky heat or doctor it up however you choose. It would taste great on wings too with some hot sauce or wing sauce added in.

BBQ Sauces that are mellow and right in the middle of sweet and spicy are perfect for keeping around the house. They are very versatile in every way and are also great just the way they are too. Check out our large selection of BBQ Sauces.

Bello Hot Pepper Sauce

Chris — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:33:16 +0000

Any good chilihead knows that trying different pepper sauces is the best part of loving the pepper flavor and developing your taste buds for the taste differences. It is amazing the different types of flavors that you can create with simple ingredients and some kicking hot peppers. Here is an interesting one that you may want to check out called Bello.

This hot sauce is manufactured by Perry W. Bellot, LTD which is a family owned business that has been making their famous hot sauce for over 40 years. The Bello Hot Pepper sauce is one of the most popular hot sauces used throughout the Caribbean.

The Bello Hot Pepper Sauce is made with Scotch Bonnet Peppers, mustard; onions; vinegar; salt and spices that are native to the Dominica. If you like it HOT and SPICY then this sauce is for you because the sauce is made with one of the world’s hottest pepper…the Scotch Bonnet! This is a chunky version of their Special Pepper sauce and includes the seeds of the pepper too (see below).

The Bello Company also manufactures two other flavors that are sure to excite your taste buds and they are the Special Pepper Sauce that includes the Scotch Bonnet, Papaya and local spices. This is the Milder version of the Scotch Bonnet sauce, if you will. Another Bello’s Sauce is called The Green Isle and it contains Cayenne peppers and it is a creole twist to a Louisiana Cajun style hot pepper sauce.

The Bello Pepper Sauces can be used in a variety of fish, meat, poultry and even in delicious cocktail drinks. The company also makes a line of fruit drink concentrates, jams, beverages and bay rum.

If you are looking for something different, try the Bello Hot Pepper Sauce for a change and enjoy a taste of the island with your next meal!

How Many Carbs Are in Pizza Huts Hot or Mild Wing Sauce?

Chris — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:47:35 +0000

There are plenty of people looking for ways to cut carbs and still enjoy their favorite wings and BBQ sauces. Sugar is the main culprit and when you make your own sauce, you can adjust the sugar or use a sugar substitute. We have a great recipe for a Low Carb BBQ Sauce that you can tweak to your enjoyment level.

Eating out can be an issue for those watching their carbs and when you have a craving for some hot and spicy wings, you do have some choices available. Here is a list of the carb counts for Pizza Hut’s Hot or Mild wings.

Variety of wings Pizza Hut Carries: (carbs per 2 bone-out wings)

* Buffalo Burnin’ Hot – 18 Carbs
* Buffalo Medium – 18 Carbs
* Buffalo Mild – 18 Carbs
* Spicy Asian – 24 Carbs
* Spicy BBQ – 21 Carbs
* Honey BBQ – 27 Carbs
* Lemon Pepper – 18 Carbs
* Garlic Parmesan – 11 Carbs

Crispy Bone-In Wings Range: (per 2 wings) 8 to 24 carbs
Traditional Wings Range: (per 2 wings) 1 to 16 carbs

Tip: If you are looking to save carbohydrates and calories your best choice off their hot wing menu is to go with the Traditional Style Wings.

Watching those carbs doesn’t have to be hard when you have choices. You can still enjoy your favorite wings by making your own sauce or grabbing some from Pizza Hut. Enjoy them!

McClard’s BBQ Sauce Recipe

Chris — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:08:33 +0000

There are many popular local favorites when it comes to barbeque sauces and one local favorite in the south is McClard’s BBQ. McClard’s BBQ restaurant is located in Hot Springs, Arkansas and opened their business in 1928. They are famous for their bbq sauce recipe and the story goes that it was given to the family back in the 1920′s by a traveler who couldn’t pay his trailer’s lot rent. In exchange, he gave the McClard’s family his secret recipe for a fabulous bbq sauce. The McClard family loved the recipe and the sauce so much that they opened a restaurant that focused on that sauce.

Over the years, thousands of people have eaten in this restaurant and have come to love their secret sauce. The McClard’s BBQ is a spicy perfection that can be used on beef or pork to make ribs, chicken wings, pulled-pork sandwiches and just about any other recipe that calls for a good bbq sauce.

Many have asked for and tried to get this special recipe, but the secret recipe is locked up in a vault so you will never see the “real” recipe in writing. However, if you love McClard’s BBQ Sauce, you can purchase some from their online store or from several retailers. The sauce is available in 18 oz. bottles or 1 gallon jugs and they offer several their recipes of pepper sauces, salsas and more.

While hunting for McClard’s sauce, make sure that you take a look at Insane Chicken’s massive selection of BBQ sauces, Hot Sauces, Wing Sauces and more. If there is something special you are looking for and cannot find, please ask us. We love checking out new sauces too!

Hot Pepper Sauce Review

Chris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:17:26 +0000

There are thousands and thousands of hot pepper sauce fans around the world and many of these hot pepper sauce fans will sample hundreds of sauces and then write reviews on what they thought about the sauce. You will find these hot sauce reviews published in newspapers, foodie and/or cooking magazines and on various web sites and right here on our blog.

It is important that when you are reading various hot pepper sauce reviews to remember that every taste tester has different taste buds and likes and dislikes. So just because one person likes such and such brand of hot pepper sauce doesn’t mean the next person will. Because of this, it is advised that you try out various hot pepper sauces yourself to find the one that best suits your individual taste buds.

While reviews are great to help you learn about individual brands of hot pepper sauce that is out there, they can also be detrimental in helping you choose the “right” one for you. If you are new to the hot pepper sauce world, the best way to find your favorite is to purchase several different brands and try them in various types of recipes before you make your final choice on which one is the best one for you.

The amount of flavor and heat combinations can make this a long process in the reviewing world. I think that is part of the fun of finding the perfect hot pepper sauce. Who’s to say what perfect is anyway? Stop by and check out the fabulous selection of hot pepper sauce we carry at InsaneChicken. I think we could get your process of finding the perfect sauce started in a fantastic way!

Cattlemens BBQ Sauce Recipe

Chris — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:25:26 +0000

There are some staples in the BBQ world and one of them, in my opinion, is Cattlemen’s BBQ Sauce. For a commercial sauce, it is dang good. The great thing about it is that you have several great yet different recipes and flavors to choose from. Let’s take a look at their recipes and see what makes Cattlemen’s different.

Their Kansas City Classic™ is a combination of sweet and a bit of spicy pepper. Nice thick tomato sauce base that sticks nicely on your ribs, chicken or other BBQ meats. The Mississippi Honey BBQ™ by Cattlemen’s is a lovely recipe that is made with Grade A honey. This sauce has a blend of sweetness along with the smokeyness that makes it perfect for traditional barbecue meats and select fish dishes.
Cattlemen’s also has the Memphis Sweet™ blend of BBQ sauce. This sweet sauce is made with real sugar along with an added bit of spice. Not too spicy, this sauce adds the sweetness you love to your favorite ribs. Unfortunately the new Carolina Tangy Gold™ from Cattlemen’s is only available in the Southeastern US. Now I am pretty sure that there are a lot of people that enjoy mustard based BBQ sauce recipes that live other places, but we will have to wait and see if this one comes out all over the US.

This sauce is mustard based, just like the name implies. They take mustard seed, cayenne peppers and apple cider vinegar and blend it in with some lovely spices. Can you just imagine what a pork shoulder would taste like after smoking 12 to 18 hours with this lovely sauce?
Next time you get a hankering for some traditional BBQ sauce or something just a bit different, check out the sauce recipes that Cattlemen’s has been serving up for 30 years.

Banana Peppers and How to Use Them

Chris — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:39 +0000

Many people love peppers but not everyone can eat or enjoy spicy hot peppers. Besides bell peppers, there is another mild pepper that is available for your enjoyment; The Banana Pepper. Here are some answers and particulars regarding this delicious pepper.

What is a banana pepper? A banana pepper is a banana shaped pepper that turns yellow, orange or red when fully ripe. This variety of pepper is very mild and on the sweet side. On the Scoville heat scale they rate at around 500 units.

When to pick them? On average your banana pepper is ready to harvest when they turn the appropriate color and measures between 4-7″ in length, depending on the particular variety that you planted. The fruit should be firm to the touch.

How to purchase them? If purchasing them fresh from your local grocery store or farmer’s market, look for ripe (but not overly ripe) peppers that have no blemishes. You should also smell them (any moldy or funky odors should be avoided).

How to store them? Freshly picked peppers should be used up within a few days and stored in a cool dry place in an airtight container. If you place them in a paper bag, close up your bag and place into the refrigerator. Some varieties will then last for up to 10 days.

How to use them? Banana peppers can be used in a variety of delicious ways. Try slicing fresh banana peppers to use as a topping on your favorite sandwich, added to your favorite stir-fry recipe or try them tossed in your favorite salad. Some cooks like to slice the peppers and add them to their favorite spaghetti sauce recipe. As you can see…this is a very versatile pepper that can be used in a variety of ways.